Photochemistry complexes

We illustrate the method for the relatively complex photochemistry of 1,4-cyclohexadiene (CHDN), a molecule that has been extensively studied [60-64]. There are four it electrons in this system. They may be paired in three different ways, leading to the anchors shown in Figure 17. The loop is phase inverting (type i ), as every reaction is phase inverting), and therefore contains a conical intersection Since the products are highly strained, the energy of this conical intersection is expected to be high. Indeed, neither of the two expected products was observed experimentally so far. 

For a review on chromium carbene complex photochemistry in organic syntheses see Hegedus LS (1997) Tetrahedron 53 4105... 

The complex photochemistry of CH MCCO) (M = Mn, Re) has already been unravelled by matrix isolation experiments, utilising both IR (V(C-O) and V(N N) vibrations) and UV/visible spectroscopy (12). 

The matrix experiments thus reveal some complex photochemistry of relevance to solution chemistry but the experiments do not provide information about kinetics. For this we need a fluid medium e.g. gas or liquid, and we consider such experiments in the next two sections. Flash photolysis suggests itself as the technique for detecting a species as reactive as Cr(C0)5 but before describing these experiments we show what can be achieved from low-temperature solutions. 

Cyclobutanones, Solution Phase Photochemistry of (Morton and Turro). Cyclometallated Complexes, Photochemistry and Luminescence of (Maestri, Balzani, Deuschel-Cornioley, and von Zelewsky). 

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A large number of other metal complexes have received long and detailed attention, but activity in recent years has revealed few new principles appropriate for discussion here and some systems have been treated in detail elsewhere.2 Included among these are oxalato complex photochemistry where oxidation of the oxalato ligands is coupled to the central metal reduction Ag(I) photochemistry related to imaging systems uranyl ion photochemical reactions coupled to organic oxidations and aquo ion photoredox reactions. Two specific topics have recently emerged as... 

A significant factor leading to the somewhat complex photochemistry of 1,3-butadiene 3, is its s-trans s-cis conformer ratio, substantially disfavoring the s-cis conformation that is needed for [4+2] and [4+4] cycloaddition reactions. The position of this equilibrium is dependent, of course, on the diene substitution. 

L. S. Hegedus, Synthesis of Amino Acids and Peptides Using Chromium Carbene Complex Photochemistry, Acc. Chem. Res. 28, 299-305 (1995). 

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